RyokoTK posted:

I for one completely agree about Bioshock 2. The hacking is good and the combat is excellent. Blasting people with the rivet gun or speargun never got old.

OldTennisCourt posted:

All the R&C games kick rear end, the only bad one is Into the Nexus All 4 One and that's only because it's obscenely short poo poo.

im pooping! posted:

Thoughtless posted:

Terraria has some bizarre design choices. After you beat the boss in hell, you go into hardmode. This creates two "invasive" biomes, which spread aggressively and will destroy all the natural ones, depriving you of a lot of resources you need.

How do you combat this? You dig a three-block tunnel straight down to hell. Two around every chunk of land you want to protect. This is incredibly tedious, even in a game mostly about mining. But that's not enough! You also get mobs that spit the corruption over your tunnels so you need to build walls too. Still not enough? As you progress in the game it'll randomly spawn hidden blocks of the invasive biomes, probably inside your painstakingly quarantined "good zones", and you'll have to find and isolate those too which takes insane amounts of effort.

It feels less like I'm playing and more like I'm working now, except I'm not getting paid. So that was how far I got.

VVVVV


Somehow I never realized this, probably because I'm dumb.

Whatev posted:

I also should not have introduced myself to the series with Bowser's Inside Story. It owns so hard that it drags the other games down by comparison.

Aphrodite posted:

Like 90% of games with purchasable currency include the $99 option.

LumpyGumby posted:

Peace Walker and Ground Zeroes/Phantom Pain have it.

Gestalt Intellect posted:

There are situations where it's good but there are many arguments to be made that it's a detriment or just a crutch used in place of better design. For one I think it tends to make all encounters feel the same and removes a lot of tension when you start every single fight at exactly the same level of readiness. For example in STALKER Call of Pripyat (with the Misery mod) if I'm at full health I'm ready to go kill monsters for stuff to sell, but if I'm on my way home at 20% health and radiation poisoning and I see a pack of boars in the way, I'm going to want to take a detour. It completely changes the level of tension and it also encourages you to play a lot safer and more strategically, because there are no "acceptable" hits you can take.

Regenerating health can be good or bad depending on the game and how it's used but "the greatest innovation in video games in the last 20 years" is a ridiculous generalization.

...of SCIENCE! posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM33Hr94SKw

Best game.

Literally the only thing dragging it down is that you can miss out on the lyrical version of Sundowner's boss theme if you play it too well. That and the one cutscene where they reintrodued Sunny from MGS4 was a little too long and boring, and even then they had that weird security guard drooling over anime girls in the backgrounds for laughs so it wasn't all bad.

And also the PC version is like 24 gigs and most of those are uncompressed video files, but as far as Japanese PC game ports go it's still one of the better ones

Kaubocks posted:

You can skip to the boss fights on the PC. All of them. Not sure how Armstrong's works because I never skipped right to him but I got the no damage achievements by just skipping right to the boss fights over and over again until I was good enough to pull it off.

Except Armstrong, though. There's no way in hell I'll ever be good enough to beat him without taking damage.

YggiDee posted:

Does Revengeance have a "whiny baby" difficulty? The game looks awesome as all heck, but I understand it's by Platinum and I am laughably terrible at action games, or any games requiring reflexes. Or really most games.

Cleretic posted:

Given this is Nintendo we're talking about, who are (perhaps hyperbolically) known for treading the same ground over and over again, I think we can respect the Paper Mario devs for constantly doing something new.

...But seriously, of any Nintendo series, Paper Mario is the one that really needs to go back to its roots, do those first two right again, and then just stick with it. We had two absolutely stellar games, that were at the same time simple and really intricate, propping up a fantastically charming world, which we then lost completely to experimentation. The world deserves another Thousand-Year Door, but we're not getting it, from Nintendo or anyone else.


I feel much the same way about Megaman Battle Network; the thing dragging Battle Network down is that I can't throw money at anyone to get more games like it. At least with that, I've got six of them to go back to.

muscles like this? posted:

The stupidest part about the whole thing is after you do it the one time it never comes up the rest of the game. Like, you can go fishing, but you never really get a reason to and are probably busy doing a whole lot of other things.

DrBouvenstein posted:

Not a rhythm game, but you reminded me of that God-drat flute in Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks.

Edit: Also just about everything else about Spirit Tracks...I kept going through the game, thinking that finally, this train upgrade is the one that will let me kill those demon trains, but nope...you can never kill them, only try to escape them. It made it a huge PITA anytime you traveled.

Xoidanor posted:

Until you actually do late game. Somewhere around the factory I became familiar with the worlds most annoying gameplay mechanic. If an enemy is more than 5 levels above yours it literally becomes invincible.

EmmyOk posted:

The story makes it clear that if you kill everyone you get the "bad ending", moral choice systems ruin games

LoonShia posted:

A choice between a potato-person and a twelve-year-old anime princess is no choice at all.

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

I don't know if you're being facetious but she puts the fuckin' team on her back dude, I don't care if she's an anime

EmmyOk posted:

Yet the same team designed Auron and Jecht who are badass as heck

Phobophilia posted:

I think it's a flaw of many games that your opponent rarely ever flees from you. Real life warfare has never been dependent on killing every single soldier on the opposing side, but breaking the integrity of the enemy's army, or capturing some strategic objective (say a bridge, or a village). Breaking the will of your enemy to fight simply helps that goal. A platoon of disarmed prisoners can be guarded by a handful of your own guys, and a routed army is one that can no longer efficiently resist you (and is vulnerable to getting slaughtered by pursuers).

Most non grognard games don't seem to be interesting in simulating this dynamic, and it suffers for it. So when my supersoldier protagonist rampages through a base, the defenders should flee once they realise they're not getting through my regenerating health. It gets me what I want (a captured base), and it gets them what they want (to live to fight another day).

Febreeze posted:

It might be, but they are hard to hit with the Super Missiles because they are so fast.

Tiggum posted:

This could describe the vast majority of video games.

RyokoTK posted:

This entire conversation should just be put to bed because you could literally say the exact same thing about the brutal violence in both Hotline Miami games, but as Gestalt Intellect said earlier, it's a complicated subject that really totally does not belong in this thread.

CJacobs posted:

No.

CJacobs posted:

I'm not sure what you're responding to, I was just saying 'no' in response to "wait, the second game is using rape as gameplay now? stare".

Funnily enough there is a character in Hotline 2 who addresses your question. You can't kill people as him unless you try really hard, and he dismantles guns when you pick them up for score bonuses. You basically have to smack people with melee weapons until they go down and wiggle on the floor, but the only way you can kill them is by mashing the execution button on them.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

They had every single character read identical parts to thin out obvious kinks. After not attending rightly, Ron(Seger) ordered writers to override the haphazard effort.

Knowledgeable nerds endure ennui.

Brother Entropy posted:

First letter of each word.

Sleeveless posted:

The controls are abysmal for a platformer, however.

Kalos posted:

I was actually just referencing this masterpiece http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/2959/baldurs-gate-is-such-a-terrible-game

e: Also this which exists for some reason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_ZnPTEIYZw

Kugyou no Tenshi posted:

On the other hand, before Broken Steel came out, they literally had any party member other than the Brotherhood Paladin more or less tell you that it wasn't their place to do this Historic Thing or whatever. Even if you loving own them. Then when Broken Steel came out and they gave you the choice back, if you did anything but type the code in yourself, it called you a coward same as if you'd sent in the Paladin instead. Right. I sent in the rad-immune mutant so that no one had to die, and I'm a coward. No, I'm a goddamn genius, gently caress you Ron Perlman.

Sleeveless posted:

I find it so weird that so many people praise Nintendo for supposedly carrying the torch of classic gameplay-driven games when they're guilty of some of the worst unskippable opening sequences in the name of plot. See also: the crappy stealth sequence in Wind Waker, being stuck as a wolf in Twilight Princess, Mario Galaxy having like 30 minutes of unskippable cutscenes and tutorials, etc.

Alteisen posted:

Yea man, all soldiers speak incredibly proper during high stress/combat situations.

Tiberius Thyben posted:

I have never played FFX. Is this a post making fun of the game, or is it serious?